On Thursday 7th May four members of the Gardening group and our and group leader (who braved the monsoon-like weather) went to Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire.

The gardens were enjoyed by us all in spite of the waterlogged paths. The gardens are laid out as `rooms ` of plants from different nations and we learned a great deal about the origins of the many plants and shrubs which had been collected worldwide and all about the people who had found them